I have it on good authority that the software hung up on all the string cluttering its innards.
The IT guys tried the brute force approach and just cut some of the threads binding some of the modules to each other, that's when things started to vanish.
The string infection mutates at an exponential rate, it is thought that infection started in cuckoo birds on twitter.
The only known cure for the String Virus is deactivated Kraken hemoglobin spread on each and every server connected to the World Wide Web.